[SOLVED] Two issues with rsync arguements.

PACMANchasingme · 02-24-2016, 06:36 AM

Code:

alias ursync='sudo rsync -aAXvP --ignore-existing --exclude={"/home/robby/.cache/*","/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} / /run/media/robby/070ddd9e-7d25-4778-832b-5a458804ebb8/\[Desktop\]rsync/ --delete-before'

1. rsync is excluding everything fine except the first exclude, the .cache folder. Why is it still synching this every time?

Code:

robby ~ $ ursync
sending incremental file list
home/robby/.cache/mozilla/firefox/k8mlqs23.default/cache2/entries/
home/robby/.cache/mozilla/firefox/k8mlqs23.default/cache2/entries/0310024F0B0D1B16092CD3149EBCE9737FDC3BC3
        162,786 100%   41.33MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#1, ir-chk=38744/45389)
home/robby/.cache/mozilla/firefox/k8mlqs23.default/cache2/entries/81D40C09C19D0AAD7A4F737AA0D3C0C06254782D
          2,249 100%  732.10kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#2, ir-chk=21679/45389)
home/robby/.cache/mozilla/firefox/k8mlqs23.default/cache2/entries/970A3B860E91368675D6C5CB7E572CD3708487AE
        162,787 100%   38.81MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#3, ir-chk=18804/45389)
home/robby/.cache/mozilla/firefox/k8mlqs23.default/cache2/entries/DFA8014EECC50B189C3513E90C30918284A22DD0
        162,775 100%   31.05MB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#4, ir-chk=9186/45389)
sys/

sent 13,283,815 bytes  received 33,226 bytes  2,421,280.18 bytes/sec
total size is 75,307,451,256  speedup is 5,654.97
robby ~ $

2. If you look at the end of my command, you notice I use --delete-before to remove any files in TARGET that do not exist in SOURCE anymore. Yet the files remain on backup which I want rsync to remove.

pan64 · 02-24-2016, 07:08 AM

2. probably they are excluded because you specified to exclude them. You gave no related information, so we can only guess.
1. use -v -vv -i or similar to check what's happening

Emerson · 02-24-2016, 07:13 AM

I use exclude lists and they work, but I do not use *, just plain /dir.

PACMANchasingme · 02-24-2016, 11:55 AM

I changed .cache/* to just .cache/ and it worked fine for some reason.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

I use exclude lists and they work, but I do not use *, just plain /dir.

Wouldn't that create problems if restoring a backup, you wont have a dev,proc,tmp folders for stuff to find and write to again.

Emerson · 02-24-2016, 12:17 PM

I use ~/.exclude file, it looks like this:

Code:

dir1
dir2
..
file1
file2
..

Not even using full path nor using trailing '/'.

TxLonghorn · 02-24-2016, 12:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PACMANchasingme

Wouldn't that create problems if restoring a backup, you wont have a dev,proc,tmp folders for stuff to find and write to again.

Interesting question, and I wondered the same thing myself. I just assumed that the needed directories would be created when needed.